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Italic a looks like italic o and is a departure from normal a
Problem
Italic 'a' and italic 'o' look quite alike. Furthermore, it's a bit surprising that the italic 'a' is a not just a slanted form of the regular a.
Proposal
Make the italic 'a' simply a slanted version of the regular 'a'.
Just my two cents. I think this is my biggest issue with the JetBrains Mono font. Besides this, almost everything is perfect. Thank you for making such a great font!
I disagree. I think that the changed letter forms make the italicised text easier to read. Besides, italic monospace text is usually used for comments or keywords. If you want to be picky, D and O also look alike.
Yeah, in former versions, the italic a didn't have tail, which looked even more closer to o. The tail exists to distinguish from o.
Oh, so the italic a had the same form as the normal a and was just slanted and was even harder to distinguish from o?
Oh I see what you mean. It was this shape before but without the tail. They added a tail recognizing it wasn’t distinguishable without it and so that’s why they consider the issue solved.
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 7:30 PM yvvt0379 @.***> wrote:
No, it was a single-story a without tail.
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